New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-08-03

Hon. John Lind exa mined candidates
for West Point at Mankato yesterday.
e. "a. Foster, one of Mankato's legal
luminaries, was in town yesterday.
Miss Amalia Nix returned from Mil
waukee Monday evening.
Miss Theresa Fay is visiting friends
in Redwood Falls this week.
# you want to spend a pleasant af-
ternoon next Sunday, attend the con-
cert at Schmucker's TiYoli.
Oscar Setter came up from St. Paul
Friday, to visit his father and nurse a
sore hand.
Jos. A. Eckstein was in St. Louis,
attending to some legal business, last
week. He returned Tuesday morning.
6 The regular monthly meeting Of the
board of trade will be held Friday
evening. A good attendance is desired.
The young ladies of the .TurnYerein
offer their old piano for sale. Intending
purchasers are requested to call at the
Hall Thursday evening.
The different singing societies met at
Turner Hall Monday evening and re-
hearsed for the concert to be given Au-
gust 23d.
The barroom in the basement of Tur-
ner Hall has been reprinted and deco
rated. Its appearance has improved a
good deal.
Mr.. Jacob Klossner has decided to
build his proposed brick-block, corner
Of Minnesota and Second Street North,
this fall. Work will commencesat once.
Several shocks Of wheat on Chas. See
gers farm in Lafayette caught fire and
were burned up. Mr.. See9er thinks
that hunters caused the fire.
The committees to solicit quarters for
the visiting defenders will call on our
citizens this week. AS many visitors
are expected a good many quarters
must be secured.
Work on the we'll still goes on The
hole is over 800 feet deep and the work.
men feel confident that a good and sui.
fcient supply Of water will be found al
a depth of less than $50 feet.
A street musician and his wife fur.
nished entertainment for the boys on
the streets Monday. The man played
a drum and bagpipe, while his wife
danced and passed around the contribu
ton box.
Mr.. E. g. PAIL writes from Germany
that he expects to be in New Ulm about
September Is. Mr.. PAIL has been I'm,
der medical treatment since he was il
Germany and reports that he is i'm
proving nicely. Mr.. Chas. Schmidt il
expected here by the middle of this
month.
The young ladies of the Turnverein
will give a lawn sociable at Turner
Hall Park Thursday evening. Fortune.
will be told by the world renowned
| Egyptian oracle, imported expressly
for this purpose. Three different kind.
of ice-cream will be served Other at
fractions, too numerous to mention
will be offered for the entertainment O
visitors.
In the department. of Agriculture
Machinery of the Minneapolis Exposi
ton, it is said, that scarcely single
implement will be at rest, but will b,
in motion in some new and novel form
Among the new machinery in this lin.
is a wedding machine, which it il
claimed will remove wild mustard from
the field as rapidly as machine cal
draw il.
A party of engineers working unde
the direction of Maj. Allen, Of the u. S
Engineer corps, have been making
survey Of the Minnesota river, to deter
mine the advisability of putting in
system of dams and locks to make the
river navigable. We know but littl,
about dams, but are still of the opinion
that the Minnesota river is in the same
condition as the creek described by Col
Ingersoll i. e., ..That it isn't worth .
dam. st. Peter Herald